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Most businesses should not start with a grand AI transformation plan. They should start with one boring workflow. That sounds less exciting than “deploying an AI workforce,” but it is usually the difference between an agent your team...
Another day, another attempt by Congress to pass an age verification mandate, another useful idiot in the HackerNews comments section saying “okay but we have to protect the children”. Stop lying. This isn’t about protecting the...
My brother is eight years old in this photograph. He’s kneeling in our front yard in South Bend, late in the summer of 1976, squinting into the sun. His jeans have tan patches on the knees. His tan tank top has brown piping around the...
Another nice day. Raked weeds from off gravel path and did some more hoeing round red footpath. Not a lot in to burn. Asked Ray for some new edging shears.
When a heroin addict unknowingly overdoses on fentanyl, who do you blame?One school of thought blames the user. They made an irresponsible choice, and this was the consequence of their action—but they may not have had full control over...
Outside The Miners Arms they’re digging up the street again for ‘essential public works’. Last week they were installing piping for moonshine on tap, the month before cable radio so people could listen to the BBC Light Programme in areas...
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2026”. I have already put together a list of new historical fiction to look out for in the second half...
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A palate cleanser after the poor book I just finished. I thought to myself who is the best writer, and in my opinion it has to be graham greene, so I picked one of his I’d not read before. It was of course superbly written. One of what...
I came to Stanford University in 1981. After being in the Graduate School of Education for five years, teaching four courses each year, advising about 20 students annually, and doing research on the history of classroom teaching and...
Way atop Mount Tusculum, there are some streets that remind us this marvelous hill was once a vineyard. The streets named Chardonnay Ridge, Riesling Knoll, and Catawba Valley are fairly redolent of the vine. Curiously, those obvious...
I have travelled the vast widths of Australia and Canada by very comfortable trains, and long parts of France and India by comfortable trains. But never on The Flying Scotsman, which was the world's most famous train service. In 1860, 3...
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Someone on Mastodon asked about running adventures in systems other than the ones for which they were written, and since I do a lot of that, it gave me to think…
When Yeeun Jo, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) contacted me in 2025 to ask about data tracking in app advertisements related to women’s health and pregnancy I was a bit skeptical. I think I first told her...